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Dell PowerEdge M520 Technical Manual

Table of contents

1 System Overview .................................................................................................................................................................5
Introduction .........................................................................................................................................................................5
New technologies ............................................................................................................................................................. 6
2 System features ................................................................................................................................................................... 7
Comparison of PowerEdge systems ............................................................................................................................... 7
Specifications ..................................................................................................................................................................... 8
3 Module views and features .............................................................................................................................................. 11
Module views ..................................................................................................................................................................... 11
Module features ................................................................................................................................................................ 13
4 Processors .......................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Processor features ............................................................................................................................................................ 15
Supported processors ...................................................................................................................................................... 16
Chipset ................................................................................................................................................................................ 16
5 Memory ............................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Supported memory .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
Memory configurations ...................................................................................................................................................18
Memory speed .................................................................................................................................................................. 19
Memory RAS features....................................................................................................................................................... 19
6 Storage ................................................................................................................................................................................ 21
Internal storage ................................................................................................................................................................. 21
Storage controllers .......................................................................................................................................................... 22
7 Networking and mezzanine cards ................................................................................................................................ 24
System management integration ................................................................................................................................. 24
Mezzanine cards .............................................................................................................................................................. 24
8 Power, thermal, and acoustics ...................................................................................................................................... 26
Power consumption and energy efficiency ................................................................................................................ 26
Power supply units .......................................................................................................................................................... 27
Thermal and acoustics.................................................................................................................................................... 27
9 Operating systems and virtualization ........................................................................................................................... 29
Supported operating systems ........................................................................................................................................ 29
Supported virtualization ................................................................................................................................................. 30
10 Dell OpenManage systems management ..................................................................................................................... 31
Systems management solutions .................................................................................................................................... 31
OpenManage systems management ........................................................................................................................... 32
Dell server management operations ............................................................................................................................ 37
Appendix A.
Additional specifications .......................................................................................................................... 39
Module dimensions and weight .................................................................................................................................... 39
Video specifications ........................................................................................................................................................ 39
Environmental specifications ........................................................................................................................................ 40
USB peripherals .................................................................................................................................................................41
Appendix B.
Standards compliance ............................................................................................................................. 42
Appendix C.
Additional resources ................................................................................................................................. 43
Appendix D.
System board block diagram .................................................................................................................. 45
Table 1.
New technologies ................................................................................................................................................ 6
Table 2.
Comparison of PowerEdge M520, M610, M620, and R420 .......................................................................... 7
Table 3.
Technical specifications ...................................................................................................................................... 8
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